The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-07-03

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The duties collected at the custom house
| Mt Tampa for the last week in june on wine
and tobacco amounted TO $1,000.
The spire of the new Presbyterian church
at Titusville is going up, and the work on
the church is progressing rapidly.
A very interesting protracted meeting has
been going on at Adamsville for the past ten
days Revs. Lee, Pixton and Bridges are
officiating.
Mayor Scott, of Gainesville, was in town
| Wednesday TO answer to mandamus be-
fore Judge Finley, why be dismissed Mar
shall Hahn.
f. B. Jordan, who owns a nursery near
| Ocala, took to Riverside, Cal, last spring
he sold for 5000.
About 900 of the best citizens of Pana-
soffkee have signed petition to the Board
of Commissioners to have the court house
moved to that point.
1t is said that the Coast Canal Company
are preparing to build a bridge across the
new Hauover canal with draw of about
| fifteen or twenty feet
The stakes for the location of the tele-
| graph poles for the signal service have been
| placed between Titusville and Rockledge,
and make the distance a fraction over twenty
miles.
Messrs. Hoover & Murray, of Panasoffkee,
have demonstrated the fact this season that
first class wine can be made from the straw
berry. They have now 800 gallons for sale
of the very best quality.
Alachua county never presented a
more prosperous appearance than at pres
ent. Cotton is growing rapidly, and good
crop is assured A big corn crop for this
season is now a certainty.
Oyer g. SCOTS store at Ocklawaha Sta
ton near Lake Weir, was robbed Thursday
night of S63 in cash The same night Capt.
Belongs store at Gambler was entered and
relieved of merchandise and money.
1t is understood at Daytona that Capt.
Vale, of st. Augustine, will be in town
within a few days for the purpose of secur
ing a hotel site, and that the erection of a
large and elegant hotel will soon follow.
William Aiken of the Webster neighbor-
hood, had a splendid article of brown sugar
in Sumterville for sale few days ago. He
made this from ribbon cane grown on his
place, and was offering it for &c. per pound.
Horton & Brown, of the Sumterville
Lime Works, have just sold thirty-two bar
rels of lime TO the Tropical Fruit and Vege-
table Company, to be used in plastering
their club house on Panasoffkee Run or the
Outlet.
At Orange City last Wednesday morning,
as the carpenters were raising the new store
building for Campbell & Chase, large floor
ioist fell from the second story, knocking off
Mr. Campbells hat, but doing no damage.
1t was a close call for him.
The dredge Alabama, under the manage
ment of Capt. Richard Thursby, has start
ed on her way from Daytona to Washing
ton, ID. G.. She was lowed to Mosquito
Inlet by the steamer Clara. At that point
she was taken in charge by the Monarch,
of Charleston.
The Receiver, while at Newl Smyrna,
Wednesday, ordered removed several new
buildings which had been recently erected
on the railroad right of way grounds near
the dock at that place. There seemed to
have been some misunderstanding about
their location and erection.
Captain Chadwick, of the Gladiator, is
about to tear down the old school building
on Sixth street, Fernandina, and will erect
fine two-story residence on his 100-foot
lot. Capt. Moore, of the Mirror, has
choice corner lot in the same block that will
contain the handsomest cottage in town af-
ter an interval of time
The members of the Baptist denomination
in Fernandina propose to erect a substan-
tial house of worship, with a seating capaci-
ty of about 300 on the site of the old church,
corner of Calhoun and Fourth streets The
becoming necessary to havea suitable build
ing. the erection of which will commence
We, y soon.
At Tallahassee Thursday Judge A. E.
Maxwells commission as Chief Justice of
the Supreme Court was issued to him, and
at 10 o'clock he opened the court and, with
Justice VanV alkenburg listened TO argu-
ments made in several measures presented
Judge J. B Christie, of Jacksonville, was
aCtip % FAl A .A, tnI
to practice i'll the Supreme Court.
During the past week a very liberal dona-
ton has been made for the Building of the
Episcopal church at Titusville by Mrs
Boardman. of New Haven, Conn, amount
ing to 500, half of which will be paid on
| the commencement of the building and the
other half when completed. This raises the
| funds to nearly $4,000, and the work
| should be commenced Immediately.
Messrs Bryan & Bradshaw, of Orange
county, have purchased the Abstract books
of C. NJ. Knott, of Sumterville, and will re-
| move them to Lake county sometime during
the present month, These gentlemen have
| employed Ed l.. Owens and Rev. w. B.
| Hare, of Sumterville, to complete the work
necessary to be done on the books, and they
are now actively engaged in the duties as
| signed them.
Aaron Howell Deputy Sheriff, assisted
by Mr.. Stokes. arrested a lad by the name
of John Dias, near lstachatta, on Tuesday
evening. He was charged with entering
the residence of Mr.. Perry, near Oxford,
| and taking therefrom watch and chain.
| Young Dias is only about 10 years of age,
and has certainly developed the bad side of
| life at very early age. He was taken back
TO Oxford for trial.
The contract for carrying the mail be-
tween Tampa, Fla, and Havana has been
continued six months from July at the old
figures. Recently when the bids were nd
| vertised for this service only two were re-
| celved and the department considered both
too high. The new arrangement. therefore,
is made in the hope of getting terms more
| favorable to the government. There will
be bi-weekly trips made between the two
points until October L, and after that time
for the remaining three months tri-weekly
trips.
An old lady of Gainesville, who has made
more than one citizen tired during the
past year, walked into a store on Fast Main
street few days ago, and requested the
! clerk to send her down six large hen eggs at
once, rs she wanted them for breakfast.
The clerk failed TO send the hen fruit within
ten minutes, and the old lady rushed back
TO the store, and demanded why the eggs
had not been sent, and the clerk replied that
he was waiting for the two-horse wagon TO
| come to haul them down 10 her Then the
old lady replied that she guessed she would
have 60 take them home herself, as she could
| wait IN lonarn,.